THE MACCLESFIELD COPY
Prosodia reformata duobus tomis comprehensa Quorum Prior continet Prosodiae Rudimenta, Prosodiam Majorem, Poetarum versus plures quàm vigintiquatuormille, & eorundem Poetarum Tempora...
Bononiæ [i.e. Bologna].
Hæredis Victorii Benatii, 1655.
First edition.
12mo.
In two volumes. [22], 180, 492; [610]pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering- piece, all edges red. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. The Macclesfield copy, with the armorial 'North Library' bookplate and typical armorial blind-stamps to title page and initial leaves of text, pencilled shelf-marks to front endpapers.
The first edition Italian astronomer and Jesuit priest Giovanni Battista Riccioli's (1598-1671) extensive linguistic treatise on the rudiments of Latin prosody.
This copy, somewhat unusually for a book from the Macclesfield library, appears to have been bound on the Continent.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 31930
This copy, somewhat unusually for a book from the Macclesfield library, appears to have been bound on the Continent.
